The Trump administration approved the requirements just days before Paul LePage left office, but Gov. Janet Mills says that change would leave more Mainers uninsured.
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Mills says state must be ‘backstop’ against federal efforts to restrict abortion
She declares Tuesday that those who would reduce access to legal abortions ‘are going to have to get through me first.’
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Mills launches official social media accounts
Gov. Janet Mills created new official accounts on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
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Read Gov. Janet Mills’ speech at Portland’s Martin Luther King celebration
Gov. Janet Mills’ speech at the 38th annual Martin Luther King Jr. dinner Monday night at the Holiday Inn by the Bay in Portland: “Let us all hope,” wrote Martin Luther King, Jr. from his narrow cell in Birmingham, “that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog of misunderstanding […]
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Solar-panel plan for Blaine House sends a message
The governor solicits proposals for what’s likely to be a visible affirmation of renewable energy.
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‘New era’ looms for Maine and its tribes
The governor kindles hope, but tensions linger over the role she played as attorney general in regard to sovereignty issues.
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Mills chooses head of farmland preservation group as agricultural commissioner
Amanda Beal grew up on a dairy farm in Litchfield and has served as president and CEO of Maine Farmland Trust since 2016.
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Mills names former House Speaker Hannah Pingree to head new office of innovation
Pingree says Maine’s Office of Innovation and the Future will look for solutions in early-childhood education, the opioid crisis, broadband expansion and other areas.
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This year’s legislative session may pit Mills against her own party on taxes
Maine’s new governor has vowed not to raise taxes in her first 2-year budget proposal, but Democratic lawmakers’ agenda calls for more state spending.
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Debate brews over splitting Maine’s agriculture, conservation department
Some interest groups who represent farmers and conservationists want to break up the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, but Gov. Janet Mills has reservations.